Associate Professor Alex Polyakov

26/08/2025

Genea Fertility Clinical Seminar 🤓

26/07/2025

Well said, I couldn’t agree more!

Obstetricians are too often forced to defend ‘interventions’ when they are actually treatments reducing mortality for both mothers and their babies, a leading practitioner says. More at: https://bit.ly/3UubkWJ

14/06/2025

Face-painting by Pieter Bruegel🤭

12/06/2025

Combining a bit of work with some exploration

11/06/2025

Guess where…

08/06/2025

Off to Hogwarts to open the Chamber of secrets🪄🧙‍♂️

24/05/2025

18/05/2025

Spent the weekend in Sydney at the advanced fertility trainees workshop. Presented in ethical issues in reproductive medicine. Fun was had by all🤓

11/03/2025

A great article on the fertility trends that I was interviewed for today

Within the next century, the way children are conceived could be vastly different.

14/01/2025

Technological innovations commonly follow the Gartner hype cycle where an intervention or a technology is proposed, widely embraced, and then does not meet the inflated expectations and is largely abandoned, only to be resurrected in a limited fashion when knowledge and experience catch up with the hype.

In this new paper, Alex Polyakov, Julian Savulescu, Christopher Gyngell, and Genia Rozen argue that novel interventions and individuals in reproductive medicine are not immune to the vagaries of this hype cycle, and present the first study in any field that proposes the Gartner hype cycle is a collective response produced by the Dunning-Kruger effect on individuals.

The authors, two of whom are bioethicists, cite endometrial scratch as an example of the combined theories, but do not confine their argument to hypotheses, additionally building a case for the potential for real clinical harm. And in a bid to protect patients from that harm they propose the development of ‘comprehensive national and international databases accessible to researchers and clinicians’ to allow fast and reliable assessment of new treatments.

They say this will result in increased patient safety and will increase the cost-effectiveness of reproductive technologies as a whole without stifling the process of innovation, which is the bedrock of continual outcomes improvement.

The paper is published open access, available to read in full from our in-press articles section, now:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2024.104702

14/10/2024

Great article on endometriosis in

26/08/2024

Very proud to be part of this amazing team! Our paper has been published today in Human Reproduction